Sep 15, 2009
(Started Aug 06, 2009)

Effectiveness

None
(for Pain)

Side effects

None

Adherence

Always

Burden

A little hard to take

Dosage:
Daily

Advice & Tips:
My neurologist prescribed Neurontin as a 'long shot' at helping eliminate pain in my back/groin from a herniated disk injury in 1963. He also had hopes it might help me sleep at night. After I reached the maximum dosage of 900 mg /day, there ws no discernible improvement in either one of these. So we decided to stop taking it. It is not a drug which one stops taking 'cold turkey'. So I have been tapering off, planning to eliminate it entirely.

Cost:
< $25 monthly

Sep 14, 2009
(Started Aug 06, 2009)

Effectiveness

None
(for Pain)

Side effects

None

Adherence

Always

Burden

Not at all hard to take

Dosage:
400 mg
Daily

Cost:
< $25 monthly

Sep 9, 2009
(Started Aug 06, 2009)

Effectiveness

Slight
(for Pain)

Side effects

None

Adherence

Always

Burden

A little hard to take

Dosage:
600 mg
Daily

Advice & Tips:
This med was lightly recommended to me by my neurologist. It was thought it might help with a pain I was having. I was also having physical therapy at the same time to also help my pain. Since neither the medication NOR the PT gave me any relief, I decided on my own NOT to waste any more money chasing this line of thinking.

Nov 11, 2009
(Started Jul 23, 2008)

Effectiveness

Slight
(for Pain)

Side effects

Moderate
(Extreme sedation, Mood swings)

Adherence

Always

Burden

A little hard to take

Dosage:
300 mg
Daily

Advice & Tips:
This med makes you feel disconnected from the world for the 1st 3 weeks then you start to adapt, I took 1 1oo in the am and 3 at night, seemed to allow me to sleep off the worst of the side effects the med did relieved 85% of the pain.